'Stalked' by Fergie's dresser

Four years ago, he was among the gallery of star witnesses assembled to give evidence in the sensational trial of former royal aide Jane Andrews.

In the end, Allan Starkie was not called to appear at the Old Bailey as Andrews, the Duchess of York's former dresser and his former lover, was tried for the murder of her boyfriend.

But Starkie, who was also a one-time aide to the Duchess, was in the Central Criminal Court as a judge jailed Andrews for life, and later wrote an entertaining best-seller about his reluctant affair with the Palace servant.

Now, in a chilling reminder of the case, Andrews, 38, is bombarding 47-year-old Starkie with letters from her prison cell.

"I feel like I am being stalked," says American-born Starkie, who now runs his own successful New York recruitment agency. "It is very unnerving. She has found my unlisted address."

Fifteen years ago, Starkie and Andrews were thrown together in the turbulent world of Fergie's life. On a European trip, the two ended up in bed together - but the affair did not develop.

Starkie eventually returned to the U.S., but after Andrews was arrested for stabbing wealthy Thomas Cressman, the businessman was interviewed by Scotland Yard and prepared to give evidence in her trial.

Four months ago, out of the blue, Starkie received a letter from Andrews at his former office in Manhattan. It was addressed to 'Mr Starkie' and signed "faithfully yours".

She was seeking details about his book - A Date With Death - demanding to know how many copies it had sold, how much money he had made and whether its sales had depended on her conviction.

Simultaneously letters were sent to his agent and publisher. Starkie ignored his. Soon another letter arrived, rebuking him for failing to answer.

Again he did not reply. Within weeks, a third, more sinister note, typewritten like the previous one, arrived in which she said she had been "patiently waiting for answers to my questions".

But when the fourth letter arrived the other day, Starkie was concerned. It was sent to a new, unpublished address. "It was very creepy, but then this woman was pushing letters under my door years ago when I was with a previous girlfriend," he tells me. "Now she is sending them from behind bars."

A pretty picture

Frisky Georgea Blakey is certainly prepared to

suffer for her art...

The equestrian artist is taking pole-dancing

lessons to prepare for a new project - painting 12

glamour girls, including Jordan.

Georgea, 33, ex-love of former champion jockey

Richard Dunwoody, is taking the naughty tutorials

to help understand her subjects.The stockbroker's daughter - who has also painted Prince Charles and Viscount Cowdray - tells me: "I need to get fit anyway! I also need to understand what goes on in the minds of these girls.

"I want to paint them minus any make-up and

minus any props, such as rubber boots or whips,

so that I can show them as traditional, acceptable

artistic female forms and not the pornographic

images they are usually associated with." Nice work if you can get it!

Two of a kind

As the children of noted ladies' men, perhaps they were destined to be together. Certainly, there is something symmetrical about the engagement of handsome entrepreneur Joel Cadbury - son of chocolate heir Peter Cadbury - and Divia Lalvani, gorgeous daughter of electronics tycoon Gulu Lalvani.

For Joel's father, matrimony is something of a speciality. He has been married three times and took his third wife, Janie, to the altar just a

week after they were engaged.

Mega-rich Mr Lalvani, 66, has an equally impressive pedigree. Twice married - and twice divorced - he formed a close friendship with Princess Diana in the last weeks of her life, taking her dancing at Annabel's and dining at Harry's Bar.

Yesterday Peter, 87 - known as "the Cad" - was said to be delighted at the wedding news. And Lalvani is thrilled at the prospect of Joel marrying his daughter. "He is very traditional, the perfect gentleman," Gulu tells me. "He took me to dinner in London to ask for my blessing."

The following day Joel, 34, whose past flames include socialites Camilla Astor and Jemima Goldsmith (now Khan), flew Divia, 29, to his

holiday home in the South of France - ostensibly on a romantic break - where he proposed.

Relatives expect the couple to throw two separate ceremonies to mark their wedding next spring: church nuptials and a traditional Sikh wedding in a Gurdwara, or Sikh temple.

"But I won't be converting," insists Cadbury. "And we don't know what country it will be in yet - Divia has relatives in India, Hawaii and Thailand."

The curious case of Lord Brocket and the bailiffs

You almost have to feel sorry for Lord Brocket -

trouble does seem to follow him around.

If it isn't his complicated love life, it's problems with the law over cars... again.

Yesterday, bailiffs arrived at his swanky South-West London apartment to execute a warrant to recover goods to the value of £400 - over an unpaid fine.

Naturally, there is an element of farce behind it all. "It's a bureaucratic nightmare," says Brocket, 53. "I paid all the necessary fines, but

the court's paperwork says I haven't."

Problems began after Brocket - who served time in prison over a bungled insurance scam involving his collection of classic cars - paid a £60 fine for speeding.

Some time later he received a fixed penalty for failing to produce his driving licence - which

he claims he had.

Despite assurances that the matter was dealt with, Brocket was then informed by Hampshire

County Court that he had been fined for failing to pay the penalty.

The bill rose to £260, plus court and bailiff costs of £140.

"It's all a terrible mistake," wails the priapic peer.

"Fortunately, the doorman kept the bailiffs out."

Court officials are looking into the matter.

PS Oh, to be a fly on the wall of the breakfast room of the luxurious Queen Mary 2, cruising from Southampton to New York. For two of its well-heeled passengers - rocker Rod Stewart, 60, and his pregnant fiancee Penny Lancaster, 34 - are about to come face to face with an old adversary.

Also on board is his former manager Billy Gaff, 62, with whom Stewart had a spectacular fall-out in the Eighties. They ended up facing each other in court - with Gaff suing for £2.5million - and eventually both declared themselves victorious.

A friend of Gaff tells me: "He couldn't believe it when he saw Rod's name on the ship's manifest. Stewart hates him. They are bound to meet because the first class area is quite small." Man overboard?